107 years since the start of the Armenian genocide on 24 April 1915. 1.5 million estimated Armenians were systemically killed between 1915-1923 by the Turks on the orders of Talaat Pasha. Another estimates 250,000 Assyrians were killed and 900,000 Greeks were killed.
Turkey has never been held accountable for their actions. They actively deny the genocide to this day. Turkey is guilty of genocide.
107 years ago turkey tried to wipe out the Armenians. 1.5million gone, but we are still here. Turkey failed.
Using subtitles as a supplement really shows how subtitles will just. Shamelessly skip parts of the dialogue. Chunks of sentences just get left out entirely.
i’ve used subtitles since childhood due to having auditory processing issues. when i was a kid, this happened VERY rarely. And when the subtitles WERE bad, people would point out the error. We should not have to put up with this today.
Inaccurate subtitles are BAD subtitles. Subtitles that are out of sync with the video are BAD subtitles. Streaming services should be held accountable for doing a bad job with accessibility.
and while we’re at it, fuck this idea that ONE ACCOUNT has to belong uniquely to ONE PERSON. This is the same thing these silicon valley fucks want; their vision of the future where everyone has a unique biometric ID code implanted in their body is the ultimate extension of Netflix’s “no password sharing” policy. You want to use your friend’s car? Sorry, you can’t, you need to be an authorized user. Your mother wants to let you look something up on her OED account? Too bad! That’s only for her! The concept of perfect market efficiency gives them greedy little money bag eyes.
If I pay money to have a newspaper sent to my house, they don’t charge me extra when I show it to my dad. This password sharing thing isn’t just a Netflix problem; don’t be surprised if it shows up elsewhere in other forms. Stamp this idea out now or we’ll be stuck with it.
“The only Hebrew version of the perennially popular Arthurian legends was written in northern Italy in 1279. […] The 13th-century Italian Jewish translator’s literary methods are as fascinating as are the Arthurian stories in Hebrew dress. The scribe not only translates from Italian, [..] he also changed and Judaized the story. The scribe’s manner of Judaization is evident at the outset of the romance; the apology itself is filled with terms from a familiar Jewish world. Instrumental to the Judaization of the Arthurian romance are the scribe’s choice of plot (the seduction of Igerne by the king, with its parallels to the David-Bath-Sheba story), additions and omissions, use of language, and treatment of certain passages to stress Jewish ideas. For instance, the feast at which Uther meets Igerne is described in the Old French sources as a Christmas feast. In the Hebrew version, the statement “Then the king made a great feast for all the people and all the princes” (based on Esth. 2:18) conveys the aura of a Purim feast. Another example of such transference of concepts occurs when the translator takes the talmudic word tamḥui (“a charity bowl from which food was distributed to the needy”), with its uniquely Jewish associations, to describe the grail, an overtly Christian symbol. The constant use of well-known biblical phrases reminds the reader of religious literature and produces the effect of biblical scenes in the midst of the Arthurian narrative. In this fashion, then, the text and the language interact in polyphonic fashion.”
Hey, my apologies if someone has already done this but I wanted to add a link to both the original Hebrew pdf and the translation in Modern English by Curt Leviant. It’s a wonderful Arthurian text and one of the most delightful versions of the last days of Camelot that I’ve read. I can’t recommend it enough for a quick and fun read.
Firefighter demonstrates how to put out a kitchen fire
Reblog to actually save a life
To explain. The latter works because you’re cutting off the supply of oxygen to the fire and suffocating it
as opposed to slapping oxygen inside the pan with the downward motion
Reblogging, because this is so important. When I was learning how to cook for myself in my tweens, I had at least a five years of fire safety seminars from school drilling this into my head, and I STILL had that instinctive put-the-fire-out-with-water reflex. Didn’t even think. I saw our oily burner catch fire after frying eggs, whipped around towards the sink for water, and my brain immediately screamed NO!!! NO WATER!
I mean that fire safety stuff straight up bitchslapped me out of REFLEXIVELY setting my house on fire. I found a pot lid and inched it over the burner before turning off the heat. Even if you think you know this stuff, panic is powerful shit. Make knowledge more powerful.
“Even if you think you know this stuff, panic is powerful shit. Make knowledge more powerful.”
Also NEVER TRY TO EXTINGUISH A GREASE FIRE WITH WATER. It will make things worse.
Reblogging because this is VERY IMPORTANT.
Read more about kitchen oil / grease fires here, with impressive videos of what happens when you use water OR flour.
WATER: throwing water onto burning oil (a) splashes the burning oil around and (b) causes a steam explosion which throws burning oil into the air.
FLOUR: throwing flour onto burning oil (a) splashes the burning oil around and (b) adds fuel as inflammable dust which flashes alight above the pan.
Baking soda or salt will extinguish a small fire (skillet / frying-pan, not deep-fryer) but needs a lot to be effective and needs POURED; if thrown - the usual panic response - there’s the same risk of splashing burning oil around.
When frying, especially deep-frying,
always keep a bigger-than-the-pot lid or a couple of dampened kitchen towels handy.
Never ever leave the pot heating unattended.
If it gets too hot (starts producing wisps of smoke) turn off the heat at once and if possible move it off the burner.
Never overfill it.
Despite the amusing silliness of most Dylan’s Kitchen TikToks, at 0:46
in the one about Potato Doughnuts he gets out a CO2 fire extinguisher because Playing Silly doesn’t stop him Playing Safe.
when two musicians sing into the same microphone and lean in very close to each other… like omg are you guys gonna kiss now to relieve the homoerotic tension?😳
THIS IS NOT ABOUT ONE DIRECTION I DON’T KNOW WHO THIS “HARRY” PERSON IS GO WATCH BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND CLARENCE CLEMONS KISS ON STAGE RIGHT NOW
op is the only valid person i’ve ever met. everyone else needs to come to the light
Okay, but this is really important: Bruce Springsteen occupied this really weird place in music history. His songs were all from this pessimistic, nihilistic view of an America that had let him down:
Just like the anti-Vietnam War protest songs that we associate with the 1960s, or the early nihilism that spawned punk music in the 1970s. But he didn’t *sound* like a punk anarchist; he sounded like a country rock singer. When he released Born in the U.S.A. people completely misinterpreted (or possibly ignored) the lyrics in favor of the tone of the music.
Politicians used his music to promote their ‘Murica Yes! brand, and he had to literally explain that that was not what he was about. He’s over here asking when we’re going to have jobs and heathcare, not stanning the politicians who weren’t helping the people.
It was also kind of a big deal that he had an integrated band, because even as late as the 1980s music was still kind of segregated and MTV was straight up racist. They refused to play and promote black artists and then claimed that were no black artists in the first place. Michael Jackson’s record company had to threaten a boycott of their white artists to get MTV to play his Thriller video.
Plus, the first black/white interracial kiss on TV was in 1968 (OG Star Trek). Also it took us until the 70s to get sympathetic gay characters on screen, and the 90s to get gay characters to kiss onscreen. And all of those firsts were met with outrage.
So keep that in mind when you see Bruce Springsteen not just playing with an interracial band, but engaging in an interracial, gay kiss on stage repeatedly.
Passages from American Popular Music by Larry Starr and Christopher Waterman
My favorite pirate joke is “why does it take pirates so long to learn the alphabet? Because they spend years at c” not because it’s THAT funny but because it’s a relatively simple joke that nobody ive told it to has ever correctly guessed the punchline for because they all think it’s gonna be a joke about arrrr
Another classic is
“Why couldn’t the pirates play cards? Because the captain was standing on the deck!”
For more hilarious pirate jokes like these go to google and type pirate jokes into the search bar and click search
Sorry for the double reblog I just wanted to let everyone know that I told the first joke to my dad and he hung up on me.
Appriss is adamant that a NarxCare score is not meant to supplant a doctor’s diagnosis. But physicians ignore these numbers at their peril. Nearly every state now uses Appriss software to manage its prescription drug monitoring programs, and most legally require physicians and pharmacists to consult them when prescribing controlled substances, on penalty of losing their license. In some states, police and federal law enforcement officers can also access this highly sensitive medical information—in many cases without a warrant—to prosecute both doctors and patients.
In essence, Kathryn found, nearly all Americans have the equivalent of a secret credit score that rates the risk of prescribing controlled substances to them. And doctors have authorities looking over their shoulders as they weigh their own responses to those scores.
Even after Kathryn had read up on NarxCare, however, she was still left with a basic question: Why had she been flagged with such a high score? She wasn’t “doctor shopping.” The only other physician she saw was her psychiatrist. She did have a prescription for a benzodiazepine to treat post-traumatic stress disorder, and combining such drugs with opioids is a known risk factor for overdose. But could that really have been enough to get her kicked out of a medical practice?
As Kathryn continued her research online, she found that there was a whole world of chronic pain patients on Twitter and other forums comparing notes on how they’d run afoul of NarxCare or other screening tools. And eventually she came upon an explanation that helped her understand what might have gone wrong: She had sick pets.
At the time of her hospitalization, Kathryn owned two flat-coated retrievers, Bear and Moose. Both were the kind of dog she preferred to adopt: older rescues with significant medical problems that other prospective owners might avoid. Moose had epilepsy and had required surgery on both his hind legs. He had also been abused as a puppy and had severe anxiety. Bear, too, suffered from anxiety.
The two canines had been prescribed opioids, benzodiazepines, and even barbiturates by their veterinarians. Prescriptions for animals are put under their owner’s name. So to NarxCare, it apparently looked like Kathryn was seeing many doctors for different drugs, some at extremely high dosages. (Dogs can require large amounts of benzodiazepines due to metabolic factors.) Appriss says that it is “very rare” for pets’ prescriptions to drive up a patient’s NarxCare scores.
As Kafkaesque as this problem might seem, critics say it’s hardly an isolated glitch. A growing number of researchers believe that NarxCare and other screening tools like it are profoundly flawed. According to one study, 20 percent of the patients who are most likely to be flagged as doctor-shoppers actually have cancer, which often requires seeing multiple specialists. And many of the official red flags that increase a person’s risk scores are simply attributes of the most vulnerable and medically complex patients, sometimes causing those groups to be denied opioid pain treatment.
Some more excerpts I found important
But the most troubling thing, according to researchers, is simply how opaque and unaccountable these quasi-medical tools are. None of the algorithms that are widely used to guide physicians’ clinical decisions—including NarxCare—have been validated as safe and effective by peer-reviewed research. And because Appriss’ risk assessment algorithms are proprietary, there’s no way to look under the hood to inspect them for errors or biases.
Angela Kilby, an assistant professor at Northeastern University, created a similar machine-learning model to study the effectiveness of those like NarxCare.
The result was that Kilby’s algorithm generated a large number of both false positive and false negative results, even when she set her parameters so strictly that someone had to score at or above the 99th percentile to be considered high risk. In that case, she found, only 11 percent of high scorers had actually been diagnosed with opioid use disorder—while 89 percent were incorrectly flagged.
Loosening her criteria didn’t improve matters. Using the 95th percentile as a cutoff identified more true positives, but also increased false ones: This time less than 5 percent of positives were true positives. (In its own literature, Appriss mentions these two cutoffs as being clinically useful.)
The article also talks about patients who were denied pain medication due to a history of sexual abuse. Others who were getting treatment for opioid addiction were flagged and denied the necessary medication. This is outrageous.
I want to boost everything this person has said and add on.
The reason I call myself a tomboy now, despite it being seen as a childish word and having had someone swear at me over it because ‘tHeRe’S nO suCh thInG as BoY thInGs anD giRL thIngS sHut uP’ is because I couldn’t call myself that or be like that when I was a kid. It was seen as a negative thing and I was already bullied enough. “Looking like a boy” was the worst thing that could happen to a girl.
And I’m not even 26 yet. We aren’t talking 30+ years ago, we are talking 2000s and even 2010s. It’s only since trans people have become more accepted in the past few years that gender nonconformity has too.
And the people who helped me accept my gender nonconformity more than anyone else? Were trans people. They taught me, “there’s nothing wrong with how you feel. You’re still a valid woman no matter what you wear, how you have your hair or what you’re into ❤️”
And don’t even get me started on how people treat gender nonconforming men. JK Rowling has a lot of nerve to be like “uwu boys can wear dresses and only us gendercrits accept that!” when she has, even in recent works, made femininity in men a negative trait, as well as making masculinity in women a negative trait also.
A lot of people still don’t accept gnc people even now. Just last year I had someone tell me they’d never let their daughter “dress like a boy”, and I’m always terrified to walk into a bathroom in case the next JK Rowling is in there, sees my gender expression and pepper sprays me or worse.
“There’s no such thing as boy things and girl things.” I don’t need to be told that and I’m sure 99% of trans people also don’t need to be told that. Tell that to the society that hates us both instead of actively encouraging that hate.
Gonna point out the og tweet thread is now full of terfs saying that life was better for gay people in the fucking 80s, that it was super easy for them to be a tomboy in the 70s and 80s and therefore it must have been that way for everyone, and that it was totally acceptable to be a gnc gay person in the 80s! 🤪
They’re rewriting history as we speak to try to argue trans acceptance is making it harder to be gay and gnc for youth than it was to be gay in the 80s. This is a blatant lie.
